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1st May 2008, 7pm-9pm. Project presentation at 7.30pm
Right, for your South dwelling types (Teenslain and Cornelius have already chatted about this), or simply interested in the genealogy of your Jamaican track frame / wheel building / Pentecostal / Brixton history, this might be of interest to you
http://www.samthewheels.co.uk/
Sam The Wheels has been living on Railton Road, Brixton for more years than I’ve been alive. He worked for Holdsworth after coming to England (and I think specialised as a wheel builder) I think the story goes that he got made redundant, took his massive steel wheel stand and set up shop from his home. He still does a little more than tinkering from there, and its a treasure trove of random bicycle weirdness.
At the moment, lots of the project is about digitising Sam’s super 8 footage of Brixton from the 50s onwards: YouTube - Brixton in the 1970s.
http://www.samthewheels.co.uk/videos
but there’s several more commissions which *I think *are still open…
So, after you’ve voted on Thursday, there’s the launch of the project in the 198 Gallery (top end of Railton, by Herne Hill station). See you there.
(Oh and no, its not my project)